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Q) Rev 14:9-11 footnote says that receivers of the mark of beast will go to lake of fire, but to me it reads as if they will be tormented forever and ever and have no rest day and night? Can you explain?

A) Yes, Scripture states that those who take the mark will be tormented by fire and brimstone (Lake of Fire). Then it states in the next verse that “the smoke of their torment will rise forever.” This is a Hebrew idiom meaning that the punishment is final or unchangeable. The same phraseology is used for Sodom, and the smoke of Sodom going forever, and we know that today Sodom is not burning, but its punishment is unchangeable.

Q) What happens after you die? What is left on earth?

A) The soul and spirit are two different things.

Gen 2:7 And YAHWEH Elohim formed the man from the dust of the ground, and blew into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living soul.

Yahweh’s Spirit is what gives life, as He is eternal by His one Spirit, and once He breathed this Spirit of life into man (made out of dirt), man became a living soul. A soul is the life that one possesses with the spirit from Yahweh.

Since the Spirit of Yahweh is eternal, but the mortal soul of a human is not, when a person dies the eternal Spirit that gave him life goes back to Yahweh who gave it, until the resurrection, when the spirit will come back into man and to those who are believers; they will be given eternal life. The body has no consciousness while dead, and is sleeping in the earth, waiting for the resurrection to happen.

Ecc 3:21 Who knows the spirit of the sons of the man, whether it goes upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?

Ecc 12:7 then the dust shall return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to The Elohim who gave it.

1st Thess 4:13 But I want you to know, my brethren, concerning those who sleep, that you should not grieve, as the rest do who have not hope.

1st Thess 4:14 For if we believe that Yahshua died and rose again, even so YAHWEH will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Yahshua.

1st Thess 4:15 For we say this to you in the Word of YAHWEH, that we the living who remain to the coming of our Master will not at all go before those who have fallen asleep.

1st Thess 4:16 Because the Master Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding shout of an archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of YAHWEH. And the dead in Messiah will rise again first.

1st Thess 4:17 Then we who remain alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet with our Master in the air. And so, we will always be with our Master.

Q) Did Jesus hang on a cross or living tree? Galatians 3:13.

A) Gal 3:13 Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Torah, having become a curse for us; for it has been written, “Cursed is everyone having been hung on a tree;”

Act 5:30 The Elohim of our fathers raised up Yahshua, whom you seized, hanging Him on a tree.

Yahshua was crucified on a tree; crucifixions on crosses were done in Rome, but not in Israel at that time; also, the name of our Savior is not Jesus, but Yahshua.

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